Winter doesn't want to leave SoCal *

Sunday's storm rolls into Paradise Cove, from Here in Malibu.

The last day of official winter has been having some fun with us in and around Los Angeles. Rain is falling faster than an inch an hour in some areas. There's been five inches in the last 24 hours at Big Rock Mesa in Malibu, over four inches at Northridge and Tujunga. The latest National Weather Service flash flood warning, at 5:47 p.m., said a heavy line of rain this evening from Malibu inland to Woodland Hills and Calabasas "will produce significant flash flooding and flooding of roadways in western Los Angeles County including the 101 freeway from Calabasas through Reseda and on Pacific Coast Highway from Malibu to Pacific Palisades. Rock slides and mud slides are likely to affect Pacific Coast Highway and canyon roads through the Santa Monica Mountains."

I-5 and other mountain roads are having snow issues, and in metro L.A. there are the usual trees down and street, intersection and freeway flooding, plus some unexpected trouble spots: water and mud on the 405 in the Sepulveda Pass construction area.

Noted: The vernal equinox occurred at 4:21 p.m.

* 8:40 update: Northridge has now received over 5.3 inches in the last 24 hours, Sepulveda Pass 4.76, Newhall 6.85. The totals are even higher in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, where there's fear of flooding at Lake Cachuma. (Los Angeles County's real-time rainfall map for the last 24 hours is inside.)